Re: Expected bytes per sloc (semicolons) performance

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

mike_harrison80@yahoo.com (Mike Harrison) writes:

> Thanks for the responses.  Sorry the thread turned into a RISC discussion.
> 
> So let me try to get back on track with a different question:
> If you were bidding a 5K sloc estimated size program (algorithmic in 
> nature) to go into a satellite with limited memory, what sort of 
> bytes/per sloc estimate would you use, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100?  Our
> experience is 50 or more.  Is this what others are seeing
> with today's Ada compiler technology?

Hmm. I've never had to actually do such a bid, but I am a Rocket
Scientist, and I've been on the receiving end of such bids, so I'll
venture an opinion :).

I'd do a prototype on the target processor, and measure it. Second
best is to find similar code on a similar processor, and measure that.

If I was on your bid review committee, that's what I'd look for. 

If you don't have a working target processor yet, and you don't have a
simulator, and there is no "similar" processor - pick another
processor!

Rules about n bytes per sloc are just too processor, compiler, and
coding style dependent to be useful.

I guess I need to say I am _not_ speaking for NASA here, just me.

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-- Stephe